Literary Canon
Toni Morrison's Beloved
With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature.
Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville
Despite its indifferent reception when it was first published in 1851, Moby Dick is now a central work in the American literary canon.
Mirrors and Echoes
Throughout Spain's tumultuous twentieth century, women writers produced a dazzling variety of novels, popular theater, and poetry. Their work both reflected and helped to transform women's gender, family, and public roles, carving out new space in the literary canon.
The Western Canon
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The debate goes on. Bloom attempts to salvage what`s left of the literary canon with this tome of tradition. In the fight agains Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope
So many questions surround the key figures in the English literary canon, but most books focus on one aspect of an author's life or work, or limit themselves to a single critical approach.
Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"
Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global literary canon.